Category: Development Process

I recently spent some time investigating some strange, seemingly random issues with caches not being cleared when expected. This behaviour could not be replicated locally in my vagrant based development environment. The Magento site in question was running on multiple servers and using Redis as the caching mechanism. Whilst the development environment also used Redis,

A recent update to composer added a configuration option secure-http, which is defaulted to true. As the name suggest the setting relates to https. More specifically it errors if you attempt to pull in a dependency over the http protocol. Importantly, this error is triggered by both packages AND repositories. If you are pulling all

Anybody that has sat through an initial composer install of Magento 2 will know it’s slow. Very slow. Unbelievably slow in fact. The main reason for this is the sheer number of dependencies which it pulls in. I decided to do some profiling and see if I could improve performance.